Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-07-30

win be able to recognize people In heaven,
when there Is one reason we fail to present,
and that is better than all--God Will intro
duce us. We shall have them all pointed out.
You would not be guilty of the impoliteness
Of having friends in your parlor not intro,
duced and celestial politeness will demand
that we be made acquainted with all the
heavenly household. What rehearsal OF old
times and recital Of stirring reminiscencesl
II others fail to give introduction, God will
take us through, and before our first
twenty-four hours in heaven--if it were
calculated by earthly timepieces-have
passed. we shall meet and talk with more
heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal
state we met with earthly celebrities. Many
who made great noise Of usefulness will sit
on the last seat by the front door of the
heavenly temple, while right up within
arms reach of the heavenly throne will be
many who, though they could not preach
themselves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let us go right up and accost those
on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely
they must have killed in battle q million men
surely they must have been buried with all
the cathedrals sounding. dirge and all the
towers of all the cities tolliDg tile national
grief Who art thou, mighty one of heavenl
II lived by choice the unmarried daughter in
an humble home that might take care of my
parents in their old age. and l endured with
out complaint all their querulousness and adj
ministered to all their wants for twenty
years."
Let us pass on round the circle of thrones
Who art thou, mighty one of heaven! ~
was for thirty years a Christian invalid and
suffered all the while, occasionally writing a
note of sympathy for those worse off than ],
and was general confident of all those who
had trouble, and once in while l was strong
enough to make garment for that poor fam
| lily in the back lane" Pass on to another
1. l.
II was the mother who raised whole family
Of children for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian me
chanics, Christian wives, and have had full
reward of all my toll" Let us pass on in
the circles of thrones. 81 had a Sabbath
school class, and they were always on my
| heart and they all entered the kingdom of
God, and am waiting for their arrival"
| But who art thou, the mighty one of heaven
| on this other throne. "In time of bitter per-
secution l owned house in Damascus, a
hoINe on the wall. A man who preached
| Christ was bounded from street to street and
hid him from the assassins, and when found
them breaking in my house and l could no
longer keep him safely, advised him to flee
for his life, and basket was let down over
| the wall with the maltreated man in it and
was one who helped hold the rope" And
said: as that ala" And he answered: That
| is all" And while / was lost in amaze
ment heard strong voice that sounded as
| though it might once have been hoarse
from many exposures and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to one of
| the martyrs, and it saids "Not many mighty,
not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to CON
found the things which are mighty, and base
things of the world and things which are
, despised hath God chosen, yea and things
which are not to bring to naught things
which are that no flesh should glory in His
| presence" And looked to see from whenc
the voice come, and lol it was the very one
who had said: "Through window in bas
ket was l let down by the wall"
Henceforth think of nothing as insignif
cant. A little thing may decide your all. A
| Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was well equipped, but in putting
| up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
| too near the compass You know how that
nail would affect the compass. The ships
| officer, deceived by that distracted compass,
put the ship 200 miles off her course, and sud
denly the man on the lookout cried: Land
ho" and the ship was halted within few
| yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals.
| A sixpenny nail came near wrecking q Gu
harder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
| A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word puts his hand behind bis
head and tits back his chair to think, and the
ceiling falls and brushes the table and would
have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica,
at night by the light of an insect called the
candle fly, is kept from stepping over preci
pice hundred feet F. W. Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from train of circum.
stances started by the barking of dog Had
the wind blown one way on a certain day, the
Spanish Inquisition would have been estab'
lished in England but it blew the other way,
and that dropped the accused institution
with 5000 tons Of shipping to the bottom Of
| rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or mine.
Three noughts placed on the right side of the
figure one make thousand, and six thoughts
on the right side Of the figure one million,
and our nothingness placed on the right side
may be augmentation illimitable. All the
ages of time and eternity affected by the bas
ket let down from Damascus balcony.